Heart’s Ann Wilson premieres cover of Audioslave’s “I Am the Highway”

Credit: Kimberly AdamisAnn Wilson of Heart has released a cover of the Audioslave song “I Am the Highway” as a tribute to the late Chris Cornell. The tender, acoustic guitar-driven performance is streaming now via Soundcloud.

As a fellow Seattle-based musician, Wilson was close with Cornell, and, as she tells tells Rolling Stone, that connection led to an emotional interaction with Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, who took his own life two months after Cornell’s death, on what would have been the Soundgarden and Audioslave singer’s 53rd birthday.